American Red Cross CPR / AED Certification Study Guide 100% Correct Answers Verified Latest 2024 Version
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American Red Cross CPR / AED Certification
Study Guide | 100% Correct Answers |
Verified | Latest 2024 Version
What is the Citizen Responders first step in an emergency? - Recognize -> check -> call
What is the most important thing you can do in any emergency? - Call all
What are the cor...
American Red Cross CPR / AED Certification
Study Guide | 100% Correct Answers |
Verified | Latest 2024 Version
What is the Citizen Responders first step in an emergency? - ✔✔Recognize -> check -> call
What is the most important thing you can do in any emergency? - ✔✔Call all
What are the correct steps in checking an emergency? - ✔✔Check, Call, Care
Why should you check a scene first before providing care? - ✔✔To ensure the scene is safe. You don't
want to place yourself in unsafe scene.
What does implied consent refer? - ✔✔If they are unconscious of a child with no adult, you can perform
care
If a child is bleeding badly, what should you do immediately? - ✔✔Call all and stop blood (put on gloves)
The best way to tell if a victim is conscious is to...? - ✔✔Tap their left shoulder, check for breathing, ask
them a question
How should you check for signs of breathing? - ✔✔Head back, chin up, face chest, listen for breathing
watch chest, look listen and feel for 10 seconds
Best way to prevent disease transmission? - ✔✔Use gloves or anything that is a barrier to bodily fluid
contact
How should you check a conscious child for non-life threatening emergencies? - ✔✔From head-to-toe
talking them through with it
, If you think a person is not breathing, what would you do next? - ✔✔Call all, look, listen and feel for
breathing
A victim is found face-up. How do you know if he/she is breathing? - ✔✔You ask then if no response
head tilt chin lift face chest and listen for breathing
When should you call 911? - ✔✔After recognizing scene or when given the consent of a life-threatening
situation. When a person is unconscious, not breathing, or in a life-threatening emergency
How can bystanders be helpful to you while you are checking the scene? - ✔✔They can call all, care,
provide info
Why do we tilt a victim's head back? What is that technique called? - ✔✔To open the airway, head tilt,
chin lift
If you are the only person at a scene, the child requires urgent care, do you call first or care first? -
✔✔Call first, then care while help is on way Care first for a min, then call
Why is it important not to move a victim? - ✔✔To prevent further injury
What are the barriers to action? - ✔✔Being sued, fear of disease transmission, bystanders fear getting
sued
What are some life-threatening conditions? - ✔✔Consistent chest pain fire, water, traffic
In checking an unconscious victim, how many initial breaths should you give? - ✔✔0 2 after comp.
What to do if someone vomits while giving RB's? - ✔✔roll on side, clean it and continue breaths
Adult CPR hand placement? How many hands? - ✔✔2 hands bottom of sternum (in between nipples)
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